[gguruusa]

Originally Posted by Jeff Kirvin

Can you explain why it's necessary to log in to something over the internet to cook and flash a ROM. I'm most curious.

I don't mean to seem ungrateful. The kitchen, what I've seen of it, looks dandy. I appreciate the work everyone involved put into this. But the requirement that we should log in strikes me as not only an invasion of privacy, a needless hindrance to those with corporate PCs, but as exactly the kind of "gee whiz" feature that software engineers (I know, I used to be one) put in without thinking that it will be problem because they don't stop and realize that not everyone is just like them. I'm sure this requirement was never an issue in testing, because, after all, who doesn't have a free and open connection to the internet at all times? It probably never occurred to the developers that some people don't.

Yes, I could wait until I get home. Except that I frankly have more important things to do there. I have the time here at the office between my official duties. But I can't use it here.

So please, explain why. Why is logging in necessary to cook and build a ROM?

It's not. Feel free to use any of the myriad methods that don't require it.